GOVERNING PANDEMICS

GOVERNING PANDEMICS 101

 

SESSION 5 MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AND TRADE IN ESSENTIAL GOODS AND SERVICES

 

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PROGRAMME

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• Mini-lecture 1: How is the development, production and access to treatment for pandemics governed internationally? What weaknesses did Covid-19 expose, and what are proposals to address them?

• Mini-lecture 2: How is cross-border trade in essential supplies and services for pandemics governed (e.g. diagnostics, personal protective equipment, food, raw materials)? What weaknesses did Covid-19 expose, and what are proposals to address them?

 

 

SPEAKERS

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• Suerie Moon, Professor of Practice, The Graduate Institute, Geneva;
  Co-Director, Global Health Centre

• Jan Bohanes, Visiting Lecturer, The Graduate Institute, Geneva;
  Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)

 

 

READINGS

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• Wellcome (2021) Achieving Equitable Access to Health Technologies:
  What have we learned from Covid-19 thus far?

• World Trade Organization (2021) Executive Summary, Overview of
  Developments in the International Trading Environment.

 

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Supplemental Reading:

• Cohen R, Childs M et al. (2021) Will science deliver needed
  therapeutics for COVID-19 – and how can equitable access be ensured? The BMJ.